The past week has exemplified the sad state of winter weather forecasting in Pittsburgh. Local TV channels, especially WPXI, have been hyping a “major winter storm” that could be “the biggest of the season” since Tuesday. While spewing these senseless exaggerations, these same networks largely ignored a significant snowfall on Thursday night that dropped 4″    …Keep Reading

UPDATE 1/19/19 9:35 AM: Roundup has been updated to reflect forecast changes since last night. The majority of models now expect the rain/snow line to creep north of Allegheny County, limiting today’s snow totals. However, the storm is now moving slower than expected, allowing the nighttime cold air to produce more overnight snow than originally forecast.    …Keep Reading

Below are forecasts from each of the outlets that we could obtain a forecast for regarding this afternoon’s light snow event. Over the past three winters, Intellicast has been our most accurate forecaster, just ahead of The Weather Channel (check out our Forecaster Ratings here). As always, we’ll publish a Forecast Analysis article after the    …Keep Reading

Welcome to PGH Snow Day’s second Forecast Roundup of the 2018-19 winter season. Coming up this afternoon is a winter storm that walloped the Midwest United States yesterday. While those major snow accumulations are not expected here, Pittsburgh could still see at least a couple of inches. Since this system is passing to our south,    …Keep Reading